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Re: [SurfGuitar101] Jazzmaster trem rattle

Brian Neal (xarxas) - 19 Dec 2004 22:15:07

Ric Flinn wrote:
>My trem arm was rattling horribly inside the collet. I
>took the bridge off, and used pliers to squeeze the
>ends of the collet together (underneath the bridge,
>the collet is split into four sections at the end),
>and this tightened it up nicely.
>
>Ric
>
>
Please be careful when you do this on an American reissue. The collet is
very brittle and can break (happened to me twice). I've heard that the
Japanese reissues and the vintage guitars had much more bendable metal
than the American Vintage Reissues.
BN

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